[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 186 (Wednesday, November 20, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6695-S6696]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                               Healthcare

  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I come to the floor today as the 2020 
Democratic Presidential candidates prepare to debate this evening. We 
are sure to hear once again about their proposals for massive taxing 
and spending. At the top of the list is their $34 trillion Medicare for 
All, which is really a one-size-fits-all healthcare scheme for the 
people of our country. Here is the key point. Democrats will 
dramatically raise taxes on all Americans. One candidate plans to 
increase taxes on working families by $26 trillion over the next year--
that is new taxes--new taxes--of $26 trillion. This candidate also 
proposes an additional $2 trillion on top of the $26 trillion by hiring 
an army of IRS agents to crack down on hard-working Americans who this 
one candidate, as a Member of this body, says can actually pay more and 
are not paying their full share. So Americans will pay $28 trillion 
more in taxes over a decade. Do not be deceived. These taxes will hit 
all Americans.

  Democrats know they can't win this election on policy. Specifically, 
they are dangerous Democratic socialist policies that they are going to 
be promoting in the debate tonight. So what are they doing? Well, they 
are counting on their totally partisan impeachment process. We have 
been hearing all about it now for months--actually, for years.
  Democrats have been obsessed with impeaching--impeaching--President 
Trump since day one, the day he was elected. Then fast forward to his 
inauguration in 2017. The campaign to impeach President Trump, starting 
from the day he was elected, really took force the day he was sworn 
into office.
  Democrats want to overturn the last election, and they want to 
interfere with the upcoming election. Election day 2020 is now less 
than a year away. Still, Democrats' impeachment obsession continues to 
burn on.
  This is an unfair, bitterly partisan process. I will tell you, the 
Americans I talk to at home in Wyoming see right through it. When I 
talk to my colleagues around the country, their constituents at home 
see right through it as well.
  Recent polling shows that the public wants the voters--not House 
Democrats and not Speaker Pelosi--to make

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their own call on election day. The Democrats, meanwhile, seem to 
prefer impeachment to doing the work of the American people--the work 
all of us were elected to do.
  Republicans prefer to work on the issues we were elected to address: 
jobs, the economy, and our Nation's security. We are going to continue 
to work for the people who elected us.